Canada Will Administer Prescription Heroin to Severe Addicts

VANCOUVER, Canada — Health Canada will now allow doctors to prescribe heroin to people who are severely addicted to opioids as per a recent amendment of their regulations, reported The Canadian Press last week. The amendment was included in light of the country’s opioid overdose crisis, stated the Canadian daily, and prescription heroin treatment allows health-care providers to treat patients with chronic dependency. A special-access program is being set up to allow for pharmaceutical-grade heroin to be prescribed for cases where traditional treatment has failed. This reverses the previous conservative government’s legislation on the matter. The Canadian Health Ministry government…